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Moujan Mirdamadi

@moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social
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Wandering Scholar of Philosophy (mental health, emotions, phenomenology) World Politics Geek. Free 🇵🇸 Farsi. English she/they ♒🏳️‍🌈♀️✒️ link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-…

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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Our volume For, Against, Together is officially available online with Cambridge University Press! Together our incredible contributors rethink antagonistic political emotions in our current climate. www.cambridge.org/core/books/f... Here’s a taste of what’s inside 🧵
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For, Against, Together
Cambridge Core - Social Psychology - For, Against, Together
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Moujan Mirdamadi @moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
"...her voice still echoed in his head saying over and over again: 'My friends … my friends … my friends burnt.'" Read the report by Elaheh Mohammadi on a girls' dormitory in Tehran destroyed following an Israeli strike. cypressfiles.substack.com/p/a-burnt-do...
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A Burnt Dorm, A Destroyed Street
Elahe Mohammadi's report published by HamMihan Newspaper on June 26th 2025
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Moujan Mirdamadi @moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
In a new section of CypressFiles, I am publishing translations of reports from life under Israeli bombardment in Iran. Read Niloofar Hamedi's report about pregnant women's experience of bombardment, published yesterday in Shargh: cypressfiles.substack.com/p/giving-bir...
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Giving Birth under Bombardment
Niloofar Hamedi's report for Shargh Newspaper, published June 23rd 2025
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Moujan Mirdamadi @moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
During the #WomanLifeFreedom movement language of trauma & PTSD dominated Iranian social media discourse & narratives. In this new piece, I examine the shortcomings of this framework in accounting for collective suffering caused by systematic & ongoing sociopolitical oppression. #philsky #philpsych
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Project MUSE - PTSD Model of Trauma in Cultural Context: The Case of Iranian Political Lifeworld
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The Daily Beans Podcast @dailybeanspod.com · 22/01/2025
This is how you do it...
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British Society for Phenomenology @thebsp.org.uk · 14/12/2024
Lifeworlds in Crisis: Applying #Phenomenology Announcing the joint international conference between the British Society for Phenomenology & University College Dublin GENCOERCTRL funded by the ERC Dublin, Ireland | 27 – 29 August 2025 www.britishphenomenology.org.uk/internationa... #philosophy
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Is it Bad to leave Twitter? No. Here are 7+ years of insights from my lab’s research that explain why. Featuring work w/ @williambrady.bsky.social @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social 🧵
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 29/11/2024
Musk, alongside the American MAGA trolls, have already begun campaigning in many countries, and will continue if not stopped
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Victor Kattan @victorkattan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
This is a clever move by Khan and the timing can’t be coincidental. In light of yesterday’s comments, will France also recognise the immunity of Min Aung Hlaing, as Myanmar’s head of state & head of government, as they said they would for Netanyahu? www.icc-cpi.int/news/stateme...
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Statement of ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC: Application for an arrest warrant in the situation in Bangladesh/Myanmar
Today, my Office is filing an application for a warrant of arrest before Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court in the Situation in Bangladesh/Myanmar. Image ICC Prosecutor Khan on ap...
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
This is a key constituent of fascism & the very essence of ‘Muskism’: promoting bullshit, silencing truth-tellers & calling the whole grift ‘free speech’. Twitter as a rehearsal for the USA.
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Moujan Mirdamadi @moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Seeing all this layed out so meticulously is eye opening, even if you've followed day-in day-out the media (non)coverage of the genocide. Well worth a read
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Moujan Mirdamadi @moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Before Twitter became X I was writing a super fun proposal for analysing emotions in digital spaces during Iran's WomanLifeFreedom movement. That's how I got into coding and data science and all. And yes, I'm a philosopher by training!
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Moujan Mirdamadi @moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Been meaning to rant about my frustration with academia #academicsky for a while, a recent rejection for a postdoc in phenomenology of loneliness, for which over 70 people had applied, has reignited the need for this rant. 🧵
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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
The nice thing about all this data surveillance is that the unexamined life is a thing of the past-- all our lives are worth living now.
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Moujan Mirdamadi @moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
با آنچه می‌ماند از من من، ـ بَعدِ من ـ در بودن وُ نبودن .نفرت می‌کنم یدالله رویایی - به لطف جلسات شعرخوانیِ چند شعردوستِ غربت‌نشین
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mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Hello everyone. This is mosab abu toha. I had this account months ago and i will start posting here soon. Please spread the word.
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Moujan Mirdamadi @moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
My substack hasn't been updated since for almost a year, I found it odd to keep singular focus on Iran with a literal genocide taking place next door. Been thinking of redefining my writing as well. Academic job looking more unlikely everyday, might as well write from the heart 🤔
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Moujan Mirdamadi @moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Been thinking (again) about how to define/maintain a public persona online. Bsky is a fun new start, but to have actual opinions expressed while also remaining a human person online is hard and scary. I still blame academia for this constant second guessing of myself 🙄
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Moujan Mirdamadi @moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Substack update - Armita was buried yesterday after being declared brain dead following 28 days of coma, after an apparent altercation with hijab patrols in Tehran's Metro. I wrote about the narratives, emotions, and the hierarchical view in valuing human life in Iran.
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Armita Geravand : suppression of rage and grief
Only 17, Armita is the latest victim of the gender apartheid regime governing Iran. She was buried under heavy security yesterday after a month of being in a coma.
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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
I invite you to say "Palestine" and "Palestinian." Don't let my people be erased.
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Prof Prachi Srivastava 🌈 @prachisrivas.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
The Knowledge, Power, Politics research group, University of Cambridge and the Race, Empire, Education Collective, University of Bristol are hosting an online event on academic freedom and Palestine. Monday, 23 October 2023 at 6 pm UK time #AcademicSky #EduSky reecollective.co.uk/events
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Race, Empire and Education Collective
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Moujan Mirdamadi @moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
"It is hardly surprising that the official western stance has wholeheartedly embraced the Israeli settler-colonial narrative, which is essentially an imitation of the original Euro-modern/colonial discourse." Yes. Precisely.
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Gaza has sparked a moral meltdown in the West's colonial mindset
The western world remains unmoved by Palestinian suffering, demanding instead that they condemn themselves for daring to struggle for freedom from settler-colonialism
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
Syria. Artsakh. We have seen this before. And because these people don't matter to the world, the world watched as it happened. This doesn't end here with Palestine. The world has become far more unsafe for all of us.
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Moujan Mirdamadi @moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
Words fail here. The least of our moral duty is to make experience of Gazans and Palestinians visible in the barrage of narrative hypocrisy that constantly and continuously dehumanises and erases them and their humanity. The narrative enabling & justifying the genocide being advocated for.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
Simcha Rotman, architect of Israel's Judicial coup: the war will end when "a Jewish child can walk safely in the main street of Gaza". He's talking about permanent reoccupation, annexation, and depopulation of Gaza.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
A million people in northern Gaza asked to move south. People discussing a humanitarian corridor so Gazans can leave the strip altogether. This is displacement. Nakba over and over again
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Moujan Mirdamadi @moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
Excited to see this publication alert in my inbox and cannot wait to get my hands on it. Important to bring more visibility to such lesser discussed approaches. (virtually waving to any and all phenomenologists on #philsky #academicsky 👋) sunypress.edu/Books/P/Phen...
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Phenomenology in an African Context
African phenomenology is an emerging subfield within the broader domain of African and Africana philosophy. The phenomenological method, with its various approaches to studying the seminal structures ...
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Moujan Mirdamadi @moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
توی فیدهای بلواسکای جمع‌ها و بحث‌های خوبی پیدا می‌شه. از جمله این‌که حالا که آدم‌ها از توییتر میان بیرون آیا باید اکانتشون رو هم پاک کنن یا نه؟ سخته - از طرفی اکانت و نوشته‌ها دست دیوانه‌ای مثل ماسک گروگانه، از طرف دیگه این نوشته‌ها بخش مهم تاریخ معاصر شده‌ان. این ماجرا توی ایران و توییتر فارسی خیلی مهمه
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Moujan Mirdamadi @moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
A very useful outline of why studying epistemic vices as well as virtues matters, especially in a social world increasingly fascinated by falsity, fakery and propaganda and there is barely any time for 'thinking well'. www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/charact...
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"Character, Vices, and Authority" by Ian James Kidd (Keywords: Epistemology; Ethics; Virtue; Truth)
"Epistemic vices are fundamentally failures of our inner life, failures to relate or respond to epistemic values and ideals."
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Moujan Mirdamadi @moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
Are we and our movement capable of standing up to racism and surviving this brutal dance, or will this moment become the one we look back on with regret as the point of irreparable damage to the unity, progress, and ideals of a once-progressive movement?
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Discourses of ‘Othering’ : The Suffering of Afghans in Iran
The new wave of racism against the minority raises important questions for Iranian society and its progressive movement.
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Moujan Mirdamadi @moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
Why the insistence on calling it a revolution? We have to go back to the underlying experiences, there are many revolutions happening under the surface in Iran. Read more on Cypress Files:
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So, Is it a Revolution?
Wrapping up this first loosely-defined series, I wonder if the use of the word 'revolution' is warranted in the case of Iran.
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Moujan Mirdamadi @moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
به تراپیستم گفتم دیگه نمیرم پیشش. باید قبول کنیم که ایرانی بودن و همه‌ی بار روانی‌ای که با خودش میاره برای تراپیست‌های غیر ایرانی زیادی سنگینه. به چشم دیدم که نمی‌دونست چی باید به من بگه و ساختار گشتالتش جوابگوی موقعیت من نبود.
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Moujan Mirdamadi @moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
برای سالگرد #ژینا رفتم برلین. از طرفی نیاز داشتم توی جمعی باشم که کمی همدلی و درد مشترک دارن، چ از طرفی هم میخواستم مشاهده و مقایسه کنم که توی این یک سال بعد از تظاهرات بزرگ برلین، چقدر راه اومدیم، چقدر سازماندهی کردبم، چقدر وصل شدیم به هم. اینجا مفصل ازش نوشتم:
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Berlin for Jina Then and Now - A personal observation
In October 2022, I took part in the big Iranian diaspora protest in Berlin. This year, on the one-year anniversary of Mahsa Jina Amini’s killing, I went back to Berlin to see what has changed.
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Moujan Mirdamadi @moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social · 05/09/2023
‏در اینکه در همه‌جای دنیا آمار افسردگی در زنان بیشتر از مردان است شکی نیست و هر متخصص سلامت روان، بسته به گرایش خاص خودش دلیل و تحلیلی از این موضوع داره. نابرابری‌های اجتماعی در این آمار نقش دارند، همان‌طور که انگ‌ها، توقعات، شرایط شخصی، و پیش‌زمینه‌های فردی. ‏
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Moujan Mirdamadi @moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social · 04/09/2023
‏وقتی حق سوگواری سلب می شود، خشم جایگزین غم از دست دادن می‌شود. در این شرایط، فضای کمی برای ترس باقی می‌ماند. پس از آن دیگر کشتن نمی‌ترساند، بلکه تنها خشم را گسترش می‌دهد. و این جمله که این‌روز‌ها بین ایرانیان دهان به دهان می‌شود: ترس می‌کاری، خشم درو می‌کنی این هفته از سوگ و جایگاه سیاسی‌اش در ایران نوشتم:
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The Politics of Grief
Movements for change in Iran, regardless of their success or failure, always come with a cost to human life, so much so that grief itself has become political, and grieving a political act.
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Moujan Mirdamadi @moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social · 03/09/2023
Oppression inflicts loss to instil fear and hopelessness. But there is a point past which fear is no longer an option. There is only rage and grief. Read on my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/cypressf...
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آلپاین @alpain.bsky.social · 01/09/2023
این عکس حس عجیبی برای من داره انگار با افسوس حرف زدن در مورد گذشته فقط مختص ما ایرانی ها نیست کابل سال 1341 پارک گلبهار
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Moujan Mirdamadi @moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social · 02/09/2023
Gender apartheid: "systemic discrimination with the intention of suppressing women and girls into total submission"
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Iran’s proposed hijab law could amount to “gender apartheid”: UN experts
GENEVA (1 September 2023) – UN experts* today expressed grave concern over a new draft law, currently under review in the Iranian parliament, which imposes a series of new punishments on women and g...
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Moujan Mirdamadi @moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social · 27/08/2023
My #Substack publication Cypress Files is where I publish pieces on culture, society, and experiences - usually inspired by #Iran. In the latest post, I dive into the role and significance of social media in the course of #MahsaAmini movement. #WomanLifeFreedom
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Socio-political movement in the digital age : the solace of social media
Social media has been a key part of the Jina Uprising since it started. How are Iranians using these spaces to drive forward their movement?
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Moujan Mirdamadi @moujanmirdamadi.bsky.social · 27/08/2023
رساله‌ی دکتری من در رشته‌ی فلسفه حالا به شکل کتاب چاپ شده. سوال اصلی این پروژه این بود که نقش فرهنگ در شکل‌گیری علائم و تجربه‌ی افراد از بیماری افسردگی چیست؟ تجربه‌ی شخصی آدم‌ها در بریتانیا و ایران از افسردگی با هم مقایسه شده‌ن، و با نگاهی به مؤلفه‌های فرهنگی، تلاش شده ریشه‌ی این تفاوت‌ها پیدا بشه.
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